Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.